Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity

202 Pages·2013·5.318 MB·English

by  Lin Foxhall

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StUDyInG GEnDER In CLASSICAL
AntIQUIty
This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people’s
lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.
Exploring how gender was linked with other socio-political char-
acteristics such as wealth, status, age and life stage, as well as with
individual choices, in the very different world of classical antiquity is
fascinating in its own right. But later perceptions of ancient literature
and art have profoundly influenced the development of gendered
ideologies and hierarchies in the West, and influenced the study of
gender itself. Questioning how best to untangle and interpret diffi-
cult sources is a key aim. This book exploits a wide range of archaeo-
logical, material cultural, visual, spatial, demographic, epigraphical
and literary evidence to consider households, families, life cycles and
the engendering of time, legal and political institutions, beliefs about
bodies, sex and sexuality, gender and space, the economic implica-
tions of engendered practices, and gender in religion and magic.
lin foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the
University of Leicester. She has worked in Greece and Southern Italy
and currently co-directs a field project in Calabria. She has written
extensively on agriculture, land use and gender in classical antiquity.
Her publications include Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking
the Ancient Economy (2007), two books on masculinity edited with
John Salmon, Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation
in the Classical Tradition and When Men were Men: Masculinity, Power
and Identity in Classical Antiquity (1998), as well as Money, Labour
and Land: Approaches to the Economics of Ancient Greece (2002),
edited with Paul Cartledge and Edward Cohen.
KEY ThEMES in anCiEnT hiST oRY
EdiToRS
P. A. Cartledge
Clare College, Cambridge
P. D. A. Garnsey
Jesus College, Cambridge
Key Themes in Ancient History aims to provide readable, informed and original
studies of various basic topics, designed in the first instance for students and
teachers of Classics and Ancient History, but also for those engaged in related
disciplines. Each volume is devoted to a general theme in Greek, Roman or,
where appropriate, Graeco-Roman history, or to some salient aspect or aspects
of it. Besides indicating the state of current research in the relevant area, authors
seek to show how the theme is significant for our own as well as ancient culture
and society. By providing books for courses that are oriented around themes it is
hoped to encourage and stimulate promising new developments in teaching and
research in ancient history.
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StUD yInG GEnDER

In CLASSICAL AntIQUIty

LIn FO xHALL
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1. Greece–Civilization. 2. Rome–Civilization. 3. Classical antiquities.
4. Gender identity–Greece. 5. Gender identity–Rome.
6. Sex role–Greece–History. 7. Sex role–Rome–History. I. title.
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Contents

List of illustrations page viii
List of tables x
Acknowledgements xi
1 Gender and the study of classical antiquity 1
2 Households 24
3 Demography 45
4 Bodies 68
5 Wealth 90
6 Space 114
7 Religion 137
8 Conclusions 158
Bibliographic essay 160
Bibliography 165
Index 185
vii
Illustrations

2.1 A bride being lifted onto a wedding chariot, Attic
red-figured loutrophoros (Berlin, Staatliche Museen
F2372; Oakley and Sinos 1993: 90, fig. 72) page 36
3.1 Woman playing the lyre (London, British Museum
1921.7–10.2); and woman reading (Paris, Louvre
Ca 2220) 56
3.2 Attic terracotta doll (Boston Museum; Elderkin
1930: 464, fig. 12) 59
3.3 Attic funerary plaque (Louvre Mnb 905 (L4)) 63
4.1 Portrait statue of a Roman man with a nude athlete’s
body, from Delos (national Archaeological Museum,
Athens, 1828) 80
4.2 Portrait statue of a Roman woman with a Venus-type
body, from Frattocchia, near Rome, later first century
AD (Copenhagen, ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, 711) 81
5.1 Pompeii, one of the the so-called cellae meretriciae
(Wallace-Hadrill 1995: 54, fig. 3.9) 105
5.2 Probable brothel, Pompeii, Lupanare, vii.12.18
(Wallace-Hadrill 1995: 53, fig. 3.8) 105
5.3 Building Z, a possible brothel in the Kerameikos,
Athens. Small rooms are visible on the left (L. Foxhall) 107
5.4 Lavishly dressed women, Meidias Painter (London,
British Museum E224) 109
5.5a & b ‘Heirloom’ loom weight (late sixth–early fifth century
bC) from the Fattoria Fabrizio farmhouse (fourth–third
century bC), Metaponto (courtesy of J. C. Carter) 111
6.1 Street plan of the north Hill of Olynthos showing
densely packed urban housing and plan of House A
viii